I applied through college or university. The process took 2 days. I interviewed at Cognizant (Madurai South) in Oct 2018
Interview
I was a fresher and it is a campus interview and generally we have 2 important round 1 is Aptitude which covers basic of all the important topics. 2nd is technical round also basic of few questions from your technical side of studies if you are a computer science graduate then you have to know oops concept for sure. once you clear the above 2 rounds you will have final discussion with HR person so he will expect you to talk final round is like your ground you have to show up as a good player in all the aspects starting from you strength weakness, hobby, problem solving skill, decision making everything.
Two interviews with coding test and and aptitute test , pretty easy , aske about projects done and java oops questions also sql question , position was full stack developer
We had many rounds like 3 rounds before interview and interview was quite good. I got selected into cognizant as and programmer analyst trainee. I did not focus much on java, so due to that i Got 4 lpa
They asked very basic questions of reversing a string java basics and sql introduction and asked some data structures concepts finally few hr questions so on finally interviewer looks very strict interview got rejected
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Programme Analyst applicants have rated the interview process at Cognizant with 2.6 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 86% positive. To compare, the company-average is 69.3% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Programme Analyst roles take an average of 10 days to get hired, when considering 454 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Cognizant overall takes an average of 17 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Cognizant as a Programme Analyst according to 454 Glassdoor interviews include:
One on one interview: 26%
Skills test: 16%
IQ intelligence test: 11%
Personality test: 11%
Background check: 11%
Presentation: 8%
Group panel interview: 7%
Drug test: 5%
Phone interview: 4%
Other: 2%
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